Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Random Play: Stop! In the Name of Love!!,

    Ocktoberfest.
    They seem to to do a mega party, and every year, not a one off.

    how about every Febrewery 6th
    we have a large culturally
    inclusive "White Hangi" day?
    ;- )

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  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    That would have been the Law Awards - the Grammys of the legal fraternity.

    kind of a "more wig gin" gig, huh?

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  • Hard News: It was 20 years ago tomorrow ...,

    WINZ some, lose some...
    I also note that the purpose built WINZ office in Linwood (corner Cashel & Linwood Ave)
    is now a Salvation Army op shop...
    do not pass go...
    sally forth...

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  • Southerly: Still a Scientist at Heart,

    beware the antigen
    my sympathies - being allergic to bee stings
    the very thought of your ordeal almost brings on anaphylaxis (during which I bloat, and float away while suffocating - shudder)
    I follow the fine advice of Sir Henry of Rawlinson End "...and always wear bike clips when mowing the lawn."


    Warning: may contain NSFW pictures of Vivian Stanshall & Keith Moon wearing Nazi uniforms!


    spend an entertaining 10 minutes in jolly old Blighty.... part 1

    parts 2, 3, 4, etc flow on from there

    here's the bike clip reference segment - enjoy



    PS: Dr Haywood - I'm hoping you can still channel Gerry Brownlee's engorged digits into fine Banjo plucking - the Bridle Path rules!

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  • Random Play: Stop! In the Name of Love!!,

    be part of the solution...
    Senior Urban Designer wanted for Auckland...
    applications close Nov 10

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  • Island Life: The World Is Full of Cu*ts,

    Where's Martin Luther when ya need him...?
    time to renail those 95 theses on the church door... or were they faeces (on the much overlooked Cistern Chapel floor) ??

    Meanwhile in Italy crucifixes are being removed from classrooms - another rubicon crossed...

    re the Telecom Sphincter logo (or is it merely a "fizzer"?) - does anyone know how much they paid for this ? and which napkin scribbler (er, Creative) was paid for it ?
    ...money for old rope, eh?

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  • Field Theory: Zombies with Wheels,

    absence makes the heart grow fonder..

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  • Hard News: Standing up and calling bullshit,

    wrought vs rort

    Sure there are rorts all round, but some of them are more hypocritical and cynical than others

    some are just deeply ingrained in the culture,
    a colonial hangover from when all that rort irony was transported to the colonies as ballast (although much of it was later melted down and sent back as part of the war effort!)
    Though once the nose in the trough, it's no great leap to puddling pig iron - hence the ongoing slagging...

    and that was the wreak that was

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  • Up Front: PAMJ: Better Than What?,

    PAMJ - and there was me thinking
    Post Adric Much Joy

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  • Hard News: Dunce Dunce Revolution,

    I'm gobsmacked by that news Rob!
    No Early Childhood Advisors at all in Chch (and I assume elsewhere too)!

    Let's re-invent the wheel - very productive
    madness....

    I've never understood the helpfulness for literacy of the Cockney sounding 3Rs - surely Acronym Central would defer to the logical RAW information (Reading, Arithmetic, Writing) or WAR if you must...

    ...and personally I always thought if you get through school with the ability to formulate a question, and some ability to process the answers, yer ahead of the game...
    most of the rest can be merely Pavlovian...
    (NB: don't flood the cellar!)

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